Other discrimination

"There are no segregated ghettos populated by the ugly. The world has never seen a "weight riot" nor has any society suffered any social unrest caused by animus toward people with beady eyes or bad acne."

"But that doesn't distinguish the problems of overweight or "ugly" people from the disadvantages suffered by people who, through no fault of their own, are burdened with inbred obnoxiousness, inherited physical weakness, or lower than average native intelligence."

-- Richard Thomson Ford

Lookism

Thankfully few people today endorse the belief that physical appearance corresponds to inward virtue. But most people value good looks in and of themselves. All other things being equal people prefer beauty.

If the complaint is that good looks are the gift of fortuity rather than the fruit of labour, it should worry us that those who issue the righteous call to prohibit discrimination on the basis of looks are happy to leave other unearned advantages fall where they lie.